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...careful effort that has been made to minimize the shock of installing the House Plan, by avoiding too close an imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge system, has received several reverses in the proposed administration at Lowell House. The differences between it and its brother House are slight, yet they offer a certain basis for the contention that the new Harvard will be over-Anglicized; and they are definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutor's table...
...inelasticity of rubber is useful-in motor car tires, bumpers, airplane shock absorber cords-because it absorbs considerable of the energy which stretches it and transforms that absorbed energy into heat. That is why a continually flexing, moving tire is hot. Pull (not slide) a rubber band between closed lips. The lips can feel the heat. Pull (not slide) a piece of steel similarly (a machine is necessary), the steel will cool...
...sorry to say that I look toward the future with great concern. We cannot ignore the fact that according to von Seeckt's theory,* motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...
...small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house...
...full shock of the news could only be felt by Real Old Yale Men, because the Real Old Fence, which enclosed the Old Campus, was broken in a class rush in 1879. Onty two fragments of that original three-rail barrier are now extant, Photographer Pach's and a section in the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter house. Yale undergraduates could only realize that no Yale team captain can be properly photographed except sitting, with his hair brushed, on Photographer Pach's fragment. Photographer Pach announced that he had been offered and had refused as high...